YouTube has started offering the capability to create GIF videos from its existing uploaded videos. It has started experimenting this feature on PBS Idea Channel’s page. How does it work? Simply click the share button, then drag the trim selector to pick the start and the end of your GIF video. The...

Today Keek, a leading global video social network known for its 36 second videos, signed Saudi Telecom Company (STC) as the first advertising client, activating the Middle East Region. The Telecom company will launch the world’s first Keek social video campaign integrating video across multiple...

The world is already very close to reaching 100% penetration in mobile connection, according to Ericsson’s sixth Mobility Report. It says there were 6.8 billion mobile lines globally in Q1 2014, or 9.3 mobile lines for every 10 people, and it is growing fast mainly thanks to the boom in sales in...

Video content in the region is on a boom. Many brands like to interact with their clients by producing quality video content.We caught up with the founders of Madison.ae a creative content agency to get their thoughts on state of Video content in MENA. What is Video Content to you? “According...

Video content in MENA is on a boom. YouTube is a classic example. Some interesting stats: - Two hours of content is uploaded on YouTube every minute the region Videos are viewed 260 million times a day in the region. We met Paul Kelly who is the Co-Founder & Creative Director of Digital Ape,...

Videos are experiencing a huge boom in social media as Instagram joins Vine and YouTube as a third promising video sharing platform with significant marketing potential. After Instagram announced that it will expand its static-images-sharing community with 15 second videos as a response to Twitter´s 6 second...

Photo by Pete Prodoehl via Flickr Creative Commons Tablet TV continued to surge as mobile, social and video converged on a growing number of smart screens built for personal media consumption. Ooyala measures the anonymized viewing habits of nearly 200 million unique viewers in 130 countries every month. Data...

Twitter has recently acquired VineApp, a mobile service that lets you capture and share short looping videos. The videos last for 6 seconds. The app itself is quite easy to use, even though it crashed a few times on initial use. Many industry experts think  extreme constraints on the content can produce...